ext2 large block size slow

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Thu, 24 Apr 1997 12:54:21 -0400 (EDT)

I was experimenting with using non-1024 block sizes in ext2fs --
I tried 2048 and 4096. It seems that using non-1024 block sizes
creates a noticable slowdown. Is using this feature not supported,
or not tested? I was doing this on 2.0.29 and 2.0.30.

Jeff